She was educated as a pianist at the Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium (Royal Danish Academy of Music) in Copenhagen.

A soldier stepped out of line and ran after her, but Else knew the city and escaped, taking the tram to Brieg who lived in Klintegården.

[citation needed] Pade began by distributing illegal newspapers after 20 August 1943, and in 1944 she received training in the use of weapons and explosives.

She joined an all-female explosives group aimed at identifying the telephone cables in Aarhus with resistance organiser Hedda Lundh.

[citation needed] After the war, she read at the Conservatory of Music, first as a pianist, but because of the after-effects of her stay in Frøslevlejren she could not do this and trained instead as a composer.

[citation needed] In 1952 she heard a Danmarks Radio programme on Musique concrète and its creator Pierre Schaeffer.

After having posted a synopsis for DR, as Jens Frederik Lawaetz read, she agreed to make background music for a TV show for the new Danish television.

The work is based on Ligeti's principles of sound colours, Boulez's serialism and Stockhausen's mathematically organized score.

[citation needed] Her interest in the new music caused her and many other composers to travel to Darmstadt and follow Stockhausen, Ligeti and Boulez's courses at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse.

[8] Nini Theilade and Pade became friends after meeting at El Forman's apartment, where many art-interested people gathered.